Spice
בֹּ֫שֶׂםStrong’s H1313basam (ba-sam)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Basam is the Hebrew word usually translated “spice my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.”
Meaning
- Spice, balsam
- (TWOT) sweet, sweet smell, sweet odour
How it's translated
- spice my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בֹּ֫שֶׂם basam · spice
1) spice, balsam 2) (TWOT) sweet, sweet smell, sweet odour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPICE, noun
- A vegetable production, fragrant or aromatic to the smell and pungent to the taste; used in sauces and in cookery.
- A small quantity; something that enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of a thing.
- A sample.
All definitions and other forms of “spice”
SPICE, verb transitive
- To season with spice; to mix aromatic substances with; as, to spice wine.
- To tincture; as the spiced Indian air.
- To render nice; to season with scruples.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.